Best smartphone apps for AAPL traders and Apple investors

My most popular posts on The Cody Word on Marketwatch are often about apps, smartphones, tablets and the future of technological trends. I suppose that is because when I first started writing for Marketwatch back in 2009 and 2010, I was pounding the table telling people to get ready for another giant tech-stock bubble, led by app-related plays. And over the years since, I’ve been consistent in outlining the best apps and app-related investments for traders and investors, so we’ve had a lot of app success already.

With FSLR, DDD, and AMZNearnings still to come, you’ll find this Scutify and their apps are the best ways to stay up to speed in real-time.

I remain so bullish about the app world that I recently acquired Scutify.com that had my favorite iPhone app. Scutify is basically an expanded stock-market-centric twitter (here’s the Scutify $TWTR feed for example). It’s the best stock market app out there. Click here to download the Scutify Android app or click here for the Scutify iPhone app.

And the app revolution is far from over. There’s plenty of continued huge growth for any app-related company that catches traction. Moreover, there are many great apps coming out every day, every week, and as Android and iOS and the smartphones/tablets/devices they run on continue to improve, you have more information, technology, data and ways to move your money than ever before.

Here then are the top 5 free apps for revolution investors. But remember there are many more out there and you had better be constantly trying out new apps and platforms if you want to stay on top.

1. Scutify (iPhone app and Android app) - We just rolled out the new Scutify iPhone app designed from the ground up for iOS7 and all the new features and capabilities that come with the new operating system. You can get real-time news, tweets, charts and my favorite “Scuttles” about any stock or commodity or even bitcoin. (Full disclosure: I’m the largest shareholder in Scutify’s parent company, Wall Street All-Stars.)

2. Zeroblock (iPhone app) – Speaking of $BITCOIN, I have tried out dozens of bitcoin-related apps and this is by far the easiest to use and more informative. With bitcoin up another $100 just this week, I’m no longer an outright buyer of bitcoin, but I’ve got quite a few now and I plan on holding those steady.

3. Stock poll (iPhone app) – Fascinating concept in which you can vote daily for where you think a particular index or stock is going to close next. They need more users to reach critical mass and make this a more effective short-term sentiment tool, but it’s a great start and certainly revolutionary.

4. Yahoo! Finance (iPhone app and Android app) – Yahoo’s been focusing and spending a lot of money on apps, and their much improved Finance app is probably the best generalized stock app out there. I have long been disappointed in Google Finance vs. Yahoo Finance and this new app helps widen that gap even further.

5. Zillow (iPhone app and Android app) – I’ve highlighted the app and the stock itself repeatedly over the last few years, and it remains one of the most interesting Revolution Investing apps you can find. I pull it out every time I travel to get an idea of property values using their listing maps. And I use it to check out property trends in my own hometown often too. I do think the stock is way ahead of itself, but it was good on their part to recently do a secondary to raise more capital while the stock is bubbled like this. $BITCOIN

Cody Willard writesRevolution Investingfor MarketWatch, posts the trades from his personal account atTradingWithCody.com, which is not affiliated with MarketWatch and is the largest shareholder in Scutify‘s parent company, Wall Street All-Stars. At time of publication, Cody was net long bitcoin and net short Priceline. Follow Cody on Twitter attwitter.com/codywillard.

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Cody Willard writes the Revolution Investing investment newsletter for MarketWatch and posts the trades from his personal account at TradingWithCody.com He is the founder of WallStreetAll-Stars.com and the principal of CL Willard Capital. Cody serves as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University and is on the University of New Mexico Alumni Board. He was an anchor on the Fox Business Network, where he was the co-host of the long-time #1-rated show on the network, Fox Business Happy Hour. Cody, a former hedge fund manager, and his stock picks and economic outlooks have been featured on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ABC’s 20/20, CBS Evening News, CNBC’s SquawkBox, Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, as well as in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and many other outlets.